Laminate flooring

In preparation for BabyKitty, we cleared out the bedrooms and the dining room and brought in someone to rip out all the old, nasty, gunk-stained carpet and replace it with hard-wood-floor patterned laminate. It’s much cheaper than real wood, it’s more durable, and I’m less likely to cry the first time BabyKitty rollerblades across it.

We went from this (and even in this little photo, you can see the state of the carpet we inherited) —

— and this —

— to THIS! Isn’t it pretty???

The previous owners took good care of their house, BTW, but an off-white carpet does not survive a baby boy growing up. It just doesn’t.

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Watch out for piles of unattended poo or puke too – the moisture can seep in and lift the upper layer a bit, if given time to work. I don’t crate Sam the Dog and he doesn’t get sick often, but he did teach me the above lesson a couple of years ago with a combo of “gotta go somewhere” from him and an extra long work day from me.